Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Tue Jul 28, 2015 9:51 pm  

A unknown superstar wrote:

Same size, yeah probably. As effective nope. We need to cut our losses with Yeamo time for someone new to take his place.

Obviously he isn't as effective as Farrell, nobody is saying he is, but his style of play us basically a solid backrower and will do a job there as backup, we should have looked to play him there 2 years ago.

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:01 pm  

Carlos T for Rankin
Fonua for Sa
Vidot for Lineham

Reckon our backline could be all overseas, which is slightly disappointing.

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:08 pm  

If Talanoa is to play, imo he needs to be back on the wing. He's basically just a better player than Yeamo offensively buy can't pass either.

Shaul
Fonua
Inu
Tuimavave
Talanoa

Would be a good call but can't see it at all.

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:19 pm  

Talanoa is too slow for the wing and terrible under high ball, better at centre IMO. I think if we sign Fonua and Vidot he place could be in danger.

Despite being told Inu was done, it doesn't look likely now.

Reckon Fonua will be announced in the next couple of days.

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:25 pm  

We'll have to agree to disagree on his best position (I think every centre should have at least a decent pair of hands) but I do agree that his position could be under threat if we sign Vidot and Fonua. That's why I don't think we'll sign Vidot.

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:27 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Carlos T for Rankin
Fonua for Sa
Vidot for Lineham

Reckon our backline could be all overseas, which is slightly disappointing.

It's an absolute disgrace Dave weres the homegrown talent

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Tue Jul 28, 2015 11:31 pm  

B0NES wrote:

It's not crucifying a player , It's giving a balanced to the opinion that he's a class signing . . Anyone can stick a montage of "good bits" together and expect their getting a top class signing when infact were not .
I also agree with 1865 about him playing centre with stats like those .

we need to give our signings a bit of support, get behind them and see what they actually do in a few games (say 10) before laying into them - who thought rankin a good signing before he had actually played a few matches? there's other examples too - Moa, Motu himself

after all as another poster said, this isn't the NRL

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Wed Jul 29, 2015 5:49 am  

Dave K. wrote:

Carlos T for Rankin
Fonua for Sa
Vidot for Lineham

Reckon our backline could be all overseas, which is slightly disappointing.

Our backline currently has few tries,little speed,not much nous and defensively ropey. Thats massively disappointing!

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Wed Jul 29, 2015 6:28 am  

Having watched fonua's highlight reel on youtube, it's uncanny how similar our style of play is to melbourne's. It will be an almost seamless transition

Re: Rumours Rumours everywhere : Wed Jul 29, 2015 6:44 am  

fun time frankie wrote:

It's an absolute disgrace Dave weres the homegrown talent

Read the last line for my thoughts.